Dear Namecheap, you rock!

To: feedback@namecheap.com From: Doug Simmons ****@302.nyc Subject: Re: [#ZKE-172-23807]: Follow up: Need help with DKIM, SPF on 302.nyc Date: Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 12:14 PM While I write this about my recent support session with you, the gist of this applies to everyone I’ve received help from at Namecheap. Every single time I’ve hit … Read more

Is Seles Games Censoring Mobility Digest?

It’s no surprise for regular readers that Mobility Digest posting frequency has been somewhat lax for the past few months. While we have two dozen or so contributors, most of us are busy doing our thing in one way or another. So it also wasn’t that surprising for me to NOT see any MD articles … Read more

Quick Tip: Resolving XBox Music Pass Song Credit Errors

Being the old guy around here I tend to use some legacy stuff. So, not surprising I have an XBox Music Pass (formerly Zune Pass) which includes the “grandfathered” 10 Song Credits per month. The XBox Music app for Windows 8 does not recognize Song Credits. So the only options to cash them in are; … Read more

Syncing your HERE and Nokia Map Accounts

So you recently read about how you should create a new HERE account soon because your Nokia account, just like all things Micronokia, are going away. So you quickly created your new HERE account and nothing. No way to sync. And then just today there is an update to HERE Maps for Windows Phone that … Read more

Winginx: One-and-Done Server Stack for Web Devs

Nerds, mind-blown warning: In a manner no more complicated than installing Winamp, you can install on your lame Windows machine NGINX, PHP, Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, memcached and a dozen other goodies, everything you need to get in gear and make some insane websites to host on any platform, with Winginx. Free/donationware by Alexei Shabalin.   … Read more

Protip: How to Buy a Nexus 6

Damn thing keeps selling out! That’s okay, I’ve got a Linux box at my disposal set to load the Google Play Nexus 6 product page every six minutes. Whenever it grabs a copy that does not contain “We are out of inventory” it emails me. There are other methods involving comparing MD5 hashes, but that’s … Read more

Google News Snubs Celsius

Load Google News in the US. See that the weather thing on the right in Fahrenheit? There’s no way to fix that. By fixing, I mean to change the unit. Celsius is the Cadillac of temperatures. It’s so pure: 0 °C means freezing, 100 °C means the water boils at sea level. Simple, practical, like … Read more

Best Speedtest in the Universe

Check out mobilitydigest.com/speedtest as I need your feedback and you need to know your speed. Yeah, you can use speedtest.net to get your megabits (deceptively throttled by your carrier), but I didn’t know where I could find an honest speedtest that is lightweight, loads in 200ms, lets me specify the type of test, tells me … Read more